site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com TestMeta.mpkg # postflight Privileged.pkg /Applications/Privileged.rtf # postflight # Admin authorization Unprivileged.pkg /Users/Shared/Unprivileged.rtf #postflight # No additional authorization. If it matters, the metapackage was built with Iceberg. The three (meta)packages copy the same postflight script, which is: ================ #!/bin/sh LOGFILE=/Users/Shared/TestMeta.log echo \*\*\* Package ${1} \*\*\* >>$LOGFILE echo ' ' USER = $USER >>$LOGFILE echo ' ' HOME = $HOME >>$LOGFILE exit 0 ================ The output, after running the metapackage is: ================ *** Package /Users/fritza/TestMeta/build/TestMeta.mpkg *** USER = fritza HOME = /Users/fritza *** Package /Users/fritza/TestMeta/build/Privileged.pkg *** USER = fritza HOME = /Users/fritza *** Package /Users/fritza/TestMeta/build/Unprivileged.pkg *** USER = fritza HOME = /Users/fritza ================ Can anyone please help me dig out? — F _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... I have been trying to work out the problem of installing something to the /Applications directory (and thus needing administrator privileges) and to the user directory of the person running the installation (installing to a neutral place like /tmp, and transferring the files with a script and the $HOME environment variable). No, that doesn't easily work. That's why I'm exploring my options. To educate myself, I built the following simple metapackage; my hope was that $USER or $HOME would remain the user's in an unprivileged package that is sister to a privileged one: When I run Privileged.pkg standalone, as non-admin user "other," entering my admin name and password, I see: ================ *** Package /Users/fritza/TestMeta/build/Privileged.pkg *** USER = other HOME = /Users/other ================ Privileged.rtf is duly installed in /Applications/. Per <http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html>, $USER should be root. In fact, I've seen postflight scripts in other packages, on the same machine, report USER = root. I am baffled. It seems I simply don't have the fundamental information that would allow me to make sense of all this. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com